dos2unix???

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Christopher Rosado wrote:

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> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 04:46 pm, Warren Block wrote:
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> > Um... ^M would mean an M at the start of a line.  This should be
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> >            s/\r//g;
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> Try pressing CTRL-V then CTRL-M in vi ... the result is ^M as a control
> character.  I use s/^M//g quite frequently.

I try to avoid unprintable characters in programs because, well, they're
unprintable.  \r is less typing, doesn't screw up when you print it
to paper, and won't be confused with a beginning-of-line anchor and a
capital M.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA